It isn’t supposed to be, but it is most definitely summer—an amped, climate-change and El-Niño-driven season in a sweltering city also reaping the effects of mowing down 80% of its trees since the 1970s. As the few remaining jacaranda, Cassia siamea, Pongamia, gulmohar, canon-ball and giant rain trees blossomed, spring temperatures in normally balmy Bengaluru crossed 36 degrees Celsius, hotter …
A mushroom revolution is taking place on the grocery store shelves of Southern California: In the produce sections of markets across Los Angeles, Agaricus bisporus, commonly known as the white button mushroom, is giving way to other dazzling fungi species such as blue oyster, lion’s mane, maitake and royal trumpet. Louie Schwartzberg’s 2019 hit documentary “Fantastic Fungi” featured legendary mycologist …
